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Let's just say robots are conscious

We simply make a decision one way or the other about robot consciousness, because there is no correct answer to the question, "Is that (psychologically, isomorphically and behaviourally) similar robot conscious?"


  • We can't that it is conscious.
  • We can't say that it is not conscious.
  • We can't say that we don't know if it is conscious or unconscious, even though it must be one or the other
All three claims presuppose that a claim about robot consciousness has a truth value, but it doesn't.

Hilary Putnam (1975a).
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